Alibaba's Qwen open-sources Qwen-Image-2.1 image model

Amazon will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled backlash against AI infrastructure, with hundreds of proposed and enacted moratoriums from New York to San Francisco.

Edinburgh-based Danu Robotics raised $5M in late-seed funding for H.E.R.O., a pincer-claw sorting robot that uses AI to continuously improve its software. The six-year-old company has $500,000 in signed contracts, letters of interest from two large customers, and 200+ customers in its pipeline.

A r/ChatGPT poster used a personal ChatGPT account on a work computer for a side hustle and asks whether their employer can read those prompts or chats. The thread contains no confirmed answer or technical detail.

A r/LocalLLaMA thread asks which local models users run for creative writing projects, steering away from benchmark scores and coding tasks. The poster excludes closed-source models from the discussion.